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ERIC Number: EJ584544
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-4086
The Cultural Production of Educational Utility in Pere Village, Papua New Guinea.
Demerath, Peter
Comparative Education Review, v43 n2 p162-92 May 1999
Describes how social and economic conditions in Papua New Guinea in 1995 led to an emerging ambivalent attitude toward education among villagers. Illustrates how local conceptions of schooling changed when promised links between education and modernization went unfulfilled, leading villagers to valorize "traditional" identity and subsistence technology as a cultural response preserving local worth. (SV)
Descriptors: Aspiration, Culture Conflict, Economic Factors, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Modernization, Parent Attitudes, Rural Education, School Community Relationship, Social Environment, Student Attitudes, Traditionalism
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Papua New Guinea; Subsistence Lifestyle